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Historic maps of Belfast and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Belfast maps
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Memories of Belfast
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Frankie's Memories
1960 was a great time for music. My memory of that year was the dance halls dotted around Belfast, the best being The Plaza in Chichester Street and many great buildings, sadly no longer with us.
Who Was The Original Fenella?
In the year of 1981 in Dublin (I'm from Antrim) I was lucky enough to meet a lovely girl called Fenella.
I always wondered where her name came from.
Schooldays
I started attending St. Malachy's College on the lower Antrim Road, but I cannot recognise the location of this beautiful photo even though the church spire is very prominent. What was it I wonder?
Elmwood Church
My late husband Jim played the pipe organ in this church. Our eldest son, Mark, aged about 5 at the time, used to go with him and insisted on sitting on the console with him. Although we lived in the area during the troubles, we were sufficiently removed from it to be able to feel fairly secure.
BELFAST-I.O.M. STEAMER,FENELLA 1897
HOLIDAY TO I.O.M. WITH MUM,DAD & ANN.
Looking For my Past - Maybe You Are A Part of it
I clicked 1860 because that's as far back as the choices went. Perhaps someone who has deep roots in Belfast might recollect a piece of my story. It begins with the birth of Margaret Jeffrey in 1828. Her mother was Margaret Kahey, but, for this Margaret, I have no dates and no parents. Margaret Jeffrey grew up and married Hugh Hayes, b. 1830. After that, my story follows 2 paths. One says that Margaret and Hugh had 3 children, Thomas b. 1844, Martha b. 1856 and Agnes b. 1865. One record states that Thomas was born on a ship coming from Ireland! The other story comes from a Passenger Contract Ticket, H.C. Bowden, 24, Donegal-Quay, Belfast. The ship was the Nelson Village, registered in Burthen, leaving Belfast for Quebec on 8 May 1847. The contract notes their accommodations as steerage and quotes the amount of rations their payment allotted them.The names and ages on the contract are Hugh Hayes, age 65, and Margaret (21), Mary (19), William (15), Elenor... Read more
Coffee |Bar Cowboys
After school - Belfast Royal Academy - a liitle gang of us would take the bus down to Royal Avenue and head for the Lombard restaurant in Lombard Street. It was a very comfortable, spacious place, founded by the Ulster Temperance Society and open evenings too, where you could sit as long as you liked, with waitress service, over a cup of tea. It'd be packed with school students in the mid-late afternoon.
Later we transferred our loyalties to Isibeal's coffee bar, down a narrow street opposite the City Hall. It was smaller and quieter there. Matthew and Joyce looked after us and let us sit for hours over that single cup of tea. Van Morrison and his band "Them" would wander in some afternoons. Isibeal's was open all evening too. Tnere was no need for underage boozing in some grotty pub.
Does anyone else recall those days of innocent enjoyment I wonder?
